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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

New Fruit Salad Bar at MBG FruitShop

Good evening everyone, how are you doing today? Today, I am going to share with you that MBG FruitShop has new fruit salad bar that you can choose the variety of fruits to make fruit salad. I attended the Healthy Brunch Bloggers Day Out at Tropicana City Mall.

MBG FruitShop introduces it's new fruits salad bars at Tropicana City Mall and Wangsa Walk Shopping Mall with more to come. Their fruits salad bar caters to anyone who wants to mix and match their healthy snacks and for busy Malaysian like you and me who needs a quick nutritional boost.

With variety of choice on fruits, the Malay community can now find this salad bars a convenient to break-fast avenue during the Holy Ramadhan month. I know some friends are tied up with their time and rushing to go home.

MBG FruitShop's annual "Yes! Fruit's" fruity festival, to celebrate International Fruit Day on July 1, returns with more fruity initiatives for a healthier Ramadhan Raya.

"Yes! Fruits" festival aims to excite Malaysians to consume more fruits with carnival-like activities such as contests, culinary demos, educational nuggets at all MBG outlets from July 1 to August 31, 2015.

Salad bars at MBG's are a convenient, fun and creative way to enjoy your fruits and vegetables as there is a large assortment of nutritious fruit and vegetables.

At the same time, in their Nutritionist On The Go - a community campaign which enable everyone can consult MBG's very own nutritionist at selective outlets to get nutritional consultant making its debut soon.

Eating fruits and vegetables which are high in vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants, water - are important for good health.

At the event, Indra share the fun and creative way to enjoy fruits and vegetables as she uses the assortments of nutritious fruit and vegetables at the fruit salad bar except for green cili padi and fish sauce that she brings on her own.

Looks at these fruit salad prepared by Indra.

It's fun learning about the key to making a good salad, adding a variety of colorful fruit and vegetables which offer different antioxidants.

Dried fruit, nuts, seeds, herbs and dressings make the salad flavourful, extra nutritious and can be a meal replacement.

Yogurt is a good protein source high in calcium that make a perfect dressing to fruit salads.

Method:
Mix all the dressing ingredients in a bowl and refrigerate to use when needed.

Assemble the salad ingredients in a large bowl. Drizzle with the yogurt dressing.

Indra’s tip: This yogurt dressing is perfect to cool you down for a light afternoon lunch. The yogurt provides protein, calcium and good probiotics. The fruits have fiber to aid digestion; plus the avocado and nuts have good healthy fats and Omega 3.

Method:
Whisk the dressing together in a large mixing bowl. Toss in the cut fruit. Chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before serving.

Indra’s tip: This fruit salad is full of vitamin C and a variety of antioxidants from the rainbow coloured fruit combination to help keep your immunity up as you start to face another hustle and bustle day.

You can also checkout the hampers of gifts that you prefer to purchase for loved ones, or make one for your loved ones at MBG FruitShop.

The "Nutritionist On The Go" campaign will be led by MBG's in- house nutritionist Ms Sharanyha Kokilathasan (Sharon), set to make appearance at MBG outlet -- offering nutrition advice to the community, in the near future.

Fruit salads come with a host of benefits such as managing weight as they are low in calories and enhances satiety and as a good replacement for those individual who have sweet tooth.

Adding a fruity dressing to salads not only satisfies the craving but re-energizes at the same time.

Please be mindful of certain guidelines when choosing items from the salad bars.

Consider your tolerance level, health conditions and also specific needs. Example: certain individuals may be allergic to dried nutritious items such as peanuts and the lactose-intolerant should avoid nuts and mayonnaise displayed.

For fruits and vegetables, taking each variety in small portions is not harmful but be careful when it comes to large quantities as it may affect certain health condition. For example, diabetics should avoid watermelon in a huge quantity as it will spike the sugar level.

For those without any health conditions, exercise your own creativity and preferences. For healthier dressing, choose a drizzle of healthy olive oil and favourite vinegar with addition of dry fruits and nuts.

Key fruits that you could opt from salad bar includes grapes, kiwis and mangoes, apples and berries. Grapes promote resveratrol which improves dilation of blood vessel and brain protection abilities. They are also great for asthma, increase moisture in lungs and reduce asthmatic events.

Mangoes with high concentration of Vitamin C and antioxidants help with immunity, regulates diabetes, low glycemic index. The tartaric acid helps alkalizes the body and rich iron amounts surg well for anemia.

Kiwi, a nutrient-dense food aids digestion and has high levels of potassium balance our blood pressure.

Drawing a comparison between the benefits of fruits and fruits juices, do you know the difference?
Whole fruits provides more nutrition that fruit juices, focusing on two components - the skin and the pulp. Pulp is an important source of fiber (and nutrients) and thru juicing the pulp are usually removed. Fruit juice has higher glycemic index and lower fiber, which passes through digestive system quickly. Fruit juices can be consumed before a meal as they will provide instant energy and doesn't have a satiety feeling.

Fruits and fruits juices combinations are great for everyday health maintenance - and especially useful during Ramadhan month for an instant energy and nutrition boost.

Photo credit to Facebook's MBG FruitShop

Time to choose fruits from fruit salad bar, so many choices of fruits, which would you choose?

Photo credit to Facebook's MBG FruitShop

The morning at MBG FruistShop, I created the Healthy Stay Awake Salad. It's fun when everyone of us is trying to create a healthy good tasting balance fruits salad.